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Myanmar's President Thein Sein (L) speaks during a joint press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo on July 4, 2015. Leaders of fiveMekong region countries are in Tokyo to attend the Japan-Mekong Summit this weekend. Japan said on Saturday it would extend around $6 billion in development aid to Mekong region countries, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender seen as encroaching on the regional clout of Tokyo and ally Washington. REUTERS/Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool